How to Become an A Student? ... Concentrating in class is very, very important because if the teacher saw you were chatting with other students, he would likely give you an after school detention. ... Obtaining more knowledge, needs doing more homework, learning in school are just letting you know how to do these questions. But homework is different, it can help you remember how to do those questions and how to use it in daily life. ... I think these three passages are the most important facts in order for you to become an A student. ...

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" This is a puzzling question for most people to answer. Of course the achievement of a degree and the careers that go along with them are key factors but Andre Hacker and Claudia Dreifus did a fantastic job of breaking up details to support how college could be more valuable in the passage, Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admissions. ... After reading through most of the passage when you came across the paragraph beginning with the title, The University of Mississippi, I am pretty sure you knew that the paragraph following was about the college listed above and had something to do with ...

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Thus, when contemplating the passage and reading it for a second time, the fog became clear. ... High school was different because the longest thing I had to write was a five paragraph essay with no word count. ... The questions require critical thinking rather than answering questions that all you have to do is look within page numbers to find. ... It was mostly reading book with the class and having the teacher point out the important information. ... College level classes actually teach you how to do it yourself which I never got in high school. ...

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The last question asked seems mediocre when compared with the others but in my view it takes a little more reflecting and reasoning to understand why we make the choices we do. ... I had no clue how I was going to do this but I thought college would be a great place to start. ... Seeing how other people think and act gives you the opportunity to examine yourself. ... Obtaining a college degree is slowing becoming a rite of passage for the people of the twenty-first century. In the ancient tribes of South America, when a man completed his right of passage he was prepared to contribute to the...

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Four questions will guide this examination: What are teachers understanding of reading comprehension, how do they instruct reading comprehension and what strategies they use? ... - The responses varied from: The ability to read a passage and grasp it's meaning and then reiterate it to others. ... Teachers assigned, questioned, and told students about the content of their assignments, but did little to show their students how to comprehend and learn new information. ... - (Duke and Pearson 2002, p. 206) A random sample of teachers that I work with was asked to answer the follow...

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This part gives the description of the current way of teaching reading and how it affects the students' reading ability from different aspects. 2.1.1. ... Thus the students can get their reading skills improved during the course and they are able to cope with the language in complicated situations. ... It has something to do with the students' rudimentary knowledge and their study habits. ... With this theory, the traditional reading teaching mainly adopts the method that items explanation, grammar analysis and transitional practice of equal importance. ... Even some are familiar w...

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In most cases' students with special needs who are included are achieving at far higher levels than they did in segregated classrooms. ... In general, students with disabilities in inclusive settings have shown improvement in standardized tests, acquired social and communication skills previously undeveloped, shown increased interaction with peers, achieved more and higher-quality IEP goals, and are better prepared for post-school experiences. ... Low-achieving students also benefited from the review, practice, clarity, and feedback provided to students with disabilities. ... With the rec...

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How, I wondered could people be so uneducated as to believe that America was this giant monster that needed to be destroyed? ... How I wondered once again, could people be so stubborn as to refuse to see the truth behind their beliefs and actions and why when presented even with the facts would people turn away? ... It all goes back to that question I had when watching the World Trade Center collapse, it is not that those terrorists were uneducated, rather they were very educated. ... Those hijackers probably had been "educated" since they were very young to hate the US, and never once did th...

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A passage in the book says that typically one's political style will be very similar to the style of teaching that best suits him or her. ... In fact, my teacher and I vary dramatically on how we feel a classroom should best be run. ... I don't feel that it is my place to tell her how she should be doing her job, but I find that I am sometimes upset at how "out of control" things seem to be. ... In discussion with her, she told me that she basically ended up at Baker because of a conflict with the administration at the high school she worked at before. ... Many questions ran thro...

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A world of success, fame, and fortune awaits those who go through society's rite of passage: education. ... With the Internet, education is no longer the domain of the elite as the information available on World Wide Web is available freely to anyone who knows how to use the Internet. ... There are various types of applications designed for online learning and these applications are normally used to download educational contents such as lecture notes or tutorial questions. ... Not only that, teachers should learn how to apply these two methods and try to accommodate students' needs ...

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Brady tries to depict Cates as a person against the Bible and the church, out to poison the mind of children by filling their heads with godless ideas. ... When Drummond questioned a thirteen-year-old student Howard, he asked him if the teaching of Evolution caused any harm to him. ... "Then why did God plague us with the power to think? ... He asks Brady about these passages, and if they are to be taken literally. ... By reading this story, the readers also witness how fickle a crowd may be. ...

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"The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punished for speaking Spanish, but that others say is a return to sanity" stated Don Terry in his article Bilingual Education Facing Toughest Test. ... With a lesser level of education, therefore, the children will not be able to quality for the better, high-paying jobs, that are available to the white population. ... Moreover, the Mexican communities and other opponents in California believe that Proposition ...

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A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exploration, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills. ... In addition, we will discuss events occurring in the world today and both read and write about how these larger events affect our lives. ... Related Objectives • read a variety of texts and analyze their rhetorical situations (i.e. context, audience, and aims) • write papers with a clearly developed thesis and support designed to appeal to various audie...

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